-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed] Note: We store 100's of related "conspiracy posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Lloyd Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: A NOTORIOUS POPE TO BE BEATIFIED TOMORROW Date: Sunday, September 03, 2000 12:51 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] A NOTORIOUS POPE TO BE BEATIFIED TOMORROW More and more "saints" for the Catholic church! One of the two former popes who will be beatified on 3 September by the present pope will be Pius IX who reigned the Pontificate from 1846 to 1878. Pius was the last pope-king to rule as the temporal monarch over central Italy and was notorious for his ultra conservatism, anti- Semitism and intolerance. One of the favorite shows of Pius IX for his visitors was done by Edgardo, a Jewish boy kidnapped by papal police, and later grown by the pope "like his obedient son". The pope ordered Edgardo to lick the floor with his tongue drawing a cross in front of his visitors to affirm his faith. It was on 23 June 1858 that the papal police in Bologna snached the six year old Edgardo from his Jewish parents and took him to Rome to be raised as a Catholic. The justification was that a zealous Catholic servant "to save his soul" baptized the infant Edgardo without the knowledge of his parents when he was gravely ill. When word spread later about the crude baptism, local papal police intervened to enforce a civil law that Jewish children, who had been baptized, even against their will had become Christian and could not be raised in Jewish homes. Even the head of the police squad was in tears witnessing the mother's helpless pleas. Edgardo's parents mobilized international protest. Emperor Franz Josef of Austria and Napoleon III urged Pius to return Edgardo to his family. Pope Pius IX found a special interest in the boy, and defying world opinion, adopted him as his personal ward. David Kertzer, a professor of history in Brown university in Rhode Island in! his 1997 book "! The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" writes elaborately about the moving case of the kidnapped boy. Edgardo Mortara, the boy who was forced by Pius IX to lick the floor to draw a cross, later became a Catholic priest and died in Berlin in 1940 at the age of 88. Pope Pius IX during his Pontificate of 32 years, the longest ever in the history of the Catholic church, despite losing temporal powers and land day by day, adamantly opposed religious tolerance and published the 1864 syllabus of errors to combat modernism. He called the first Vatican Council to define the doctrine of papal infallibility in matters of faith and morals. "I am the Church, I am the tradition," was one of his favorite phrases. Alongwith Pius IX, another pope, John XXIII, who ended Latin mass and gave bishops more power, will also be beatified tomorrow. His Pontificate was from 1958 to 1963. The growing laity movement in the Catholic church against the centralization of powers and wealth by bishops considers John XXIII as the initiator of authoritarianism of bishops vis-a-vis local priests and laity groups. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forwarded for info and discussion from the New Paradigms Discussion List, not necessarily endorsed by: *********************************** Lloyd Miller, Research Director for A-albionic Research a ruling class/conspiracy research resource for the entire political-ideological spectrum. **FREE RARE BOOK SEARCH: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ** Explore Our Archive: <http://a-albionic.com/a-albionic.html> <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
